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- Mar. 05, 1990: Business Notes:Personalities
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Mar. 05, 1990 Gossip
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 45
- Business Notes
- PERSONALITIES
- Give It to Us Straight, Frank
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- <body>
- <p> In the 1960s he was pictured on a top-selling poster sitting
- on a toilet. In the '70s he penned the foul-mouthed rock
- classic Don't Eat the Yellow Snow. Small wonder, then, that the
- iconoclastic musician Frank Zappa has had a hard time getting
- mainstream airplay. But the times they are a-changin', and
- Financial News Network is betting the cult hero is ready for
- prime time. This week Zappa debuts as guest host on FNN: Focus,
- an interview show. As his opening topic, Zappa will explore
- opportunities for U.S. businesses in the Soviet Union. The
- 49-year-old renegade may have some insight to share. Last year
- he formed a consulting firm to set up joint ventures in the
- U.S.S.R. Says Zappa: "It's an off-the-wall situation over there.
- How can you ignore 280 million consumers?"
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